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Hotel Splendide: the charming and witty memoir from 'the original bad boy of the New York hotel scene' Anthony Bourdain

Name: Hotel Splendide: the charming and witty memoir from 'the original bad boy of the New York hotel scene' Anthony Bourdain
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9781782277927

By
- Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher
- Pushkin Press

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1 Ratings: 4
Language: English
Format
Category: Biographies

In this uproariously funny memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide, the luxury New York hotel where he worked as a waiter. With equal parts affection and barbed wit, he records the everyday chaos that reigns behind the smooth facades of the gilded dining room and banquet halls.In hilarious detail, Bemelmans sketches the hierarchy of hotel life and its strange and fascinating inhabitants: from the ruthlessly authoritarian maître d'hôtel Monsieur Victor to the kindly waiter Mespoulets to Frizl the homesick busboy. Illustrated with his own charming line drawings, Bemelmans' tales of a bygone era of extravagance are as charming as they are riotously entertaining.

Release date

Ebook: 29 September 2022